Data acquisition is critical to every burner and flare test performed at our International Research and Development Test Center. John Zink Company uses a myriad of technologies and equipment - including WonderWare™ software and test analysis monitors to measure emissions, opacity, temperature, pressure drop and heat flux. This enables us to deliver the most accurate test results.

WonderWare

Zink's world-class engineers and technicians use WonderWare software to remotely monitor, record, and instantly download and analyze burner data from all the test furnaces. The test data can be projected onto screens and monitors in the customer rooms for immediate analysis. This software allows our engineers and technicians to remotely test Furnaces 12 and 14. Customers in the control room of the Customer Center can view live burner operation inside Furnace 14 by video.

WonderWare runs the test data from any of the furnaces through our custom-designed macros to generate a customer test report in one to two hours. The hard-bound test report includes the test procedures, pictures of the burner and furnace, the customer specified objectives and the test results, including emissions, temperature, flow rate, noise, relative air humidity, pressures and more.

Test Analysis Monitors

Emissions

Zink measures burner emissions from the test furnaces in real time using dry and wet analyzers. The dry analyzers use water-cooled suction probes or quench-suction probes to pull gas from the stack. The sample is then conditioned, and the data sent to WonderWare to display NOx, CO, O₂ and unburned hydrocarbon compositions. We then use wet analyzers to cross-check the suction-probe samplings and measure emissions.

Radiation

Measuring the UV and IR radiations from the burner flame provides Zink experts with more emissions data. Zink uses NDIR to measure CO emissions, Chemiluminescent analyzers to measure NOx emissions and paramagnetic sensors to measure O₂ concentrations.

Temperature

Incorrect temperature readings can create a ± 200° F difference upon field installation. To guarantee the burner will perform as required in the field, Zink uses a suction pyrometer - the most accurate temperature measuring device on the market. The suction pyrometer pulls the sample through the design to prevent the thermocouple from losing heat to radiation. Precision temperature measurement helps Zink predict and guarantee NOx emissions from the burner.

Heat Flux

Uniform heat flux is essential to the ethylene cracking and crude oil refining industries. John Zink Company uses state-of-the-art heat flux probes to ensure uniform heat flux from the burner through the furnace walls and tubes. For maximum accuracy, the heat flux probes are regularly calibrated.

Contact a Zink^® representative for more information.

John Zink Company, LLC
11920 East Apache
Tulsa, OK 74116
United States of America
+1-918-234-1800

email: info@johnzink.com